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16 Gilmore Place, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9418 / 55°56'30"N

Longitude: -3.206 / 3°12'21"W

OS Eastings: 324769

OS Northings: 672735

OS Grid: NT247727

Mapcode National: GBR 8LK.2J

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.QXJC

Plus Code: 9C7RWQRV+PJ

Entry Name: 16 Gilmore Place, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 8-24 (Even Nos) Gilmore Place Including Boundary Walls and Railings

Listing Date: 21 June 1982

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 367554

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28910

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 16 Gilmore Place

ID on this website: 200367554

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Later 19th century. Terrace of 2-storey, 3-bay houses. Coursed sandstone with polished dressings. Base course; eaves cornice and blocking course. Entrances in left bays; timber panelled doors with plate glass fanlights in moulded surrounds with consoled cornices; Doric-pilastered architrave to No 24, later pediment to No 22. Regularly fenestrated (bipartites to right bay of No 8, tripartite to 2nd floor of No 22); windows in moulded architraves.

Predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case windows (8-pane glazing to Nos 12 and 24). Later slate-hung dormers (mostly tripartite) to attics. Cast-iron down pipes with decorative hoppers. Graded grey slates. Stone skews. Corniced stone stacks with circular cans.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS: low boundary walls to front gardens with some cast-iron railings.

Statement of Interest

Built from the W towards the E. The site is still shown as a rope walk on the 1853 OS map; 1877 OS map shows the terrace complete.

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